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Michelle Nicholson explores the importance of building links to prior learning to help close gaps in children’s spelling.

Download our free Phonics Screening Check analysis tool for the 2019 PSC words.

Key to success: cover less; practise more.

Teach about diversity and tolerance through looking at family types.

Find out how Hermelin, the Detective Mouse by Mini Grey and HfL planning (available to download) can make children want to write and write and write.

Would you bee-lieve it! Penny Slater reflects on how to increase children’s confidence in accessing non-fiction texts.

Thinking about the skill of reading that we are nurturing, if we pause long enough we could become quite overwhelmed by the responsibility of it all!

In need of inspiration? Join us on a journey to see how one group of Hertfordshire junior schools reignited a passion for reading and writing.

Michelle Nicholson considers books to share with children and activities to try in the wake of this momentous anniversary.

The Herts for Learning Primary English team provide a focused blast of ideas and advice for developing language use in class.